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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Theodore P. Hamlin Papers, #3014-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Hooberry's Book Store, Nashville, Tenn., April 1954.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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• Agriculture--Tennessee--History--19th century.
• Cotton--Tennessee--History--19th century.
• Davidson County (Tenn.)--History--19th century.
• Dodson, Newt J., fl. 1881-1885.
• Family--Tennessee--Social life and customs.
• Hamlin, Theodore P., d. 1867.
• Johnson Island Prison.
• Russworm, John S., fl. 1850.
• Tennessee--Social life and customs.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• Worley, Mary B., fl. 1850.

Theodore P. Hamlin (died 1867) of Davidson County, Tenn., was a Confederate soldier with the 18th Tennessee Regiment. He was imprisoned for a time at Johnson's Island, Ohio. His father was T. B. Hamlin, a land owner and dentist.

The collection includes letters, 1864-1867, from Theodore P. Hamlin to members of his family in Edgefield, Davidson County, Tenn.; a few personal and family letters, 1850s, to Mary B. Worley of Tennessee; a few personal items, 1850s, of John S. Russworm of Williamson County, Tenn.; and itemized bills, 1881-1885, of Newt J. Dodson, Nashville, Tenn. The letters from Hamlin include nine written in 1864-1865, while he was a prisoner at Johnson's Island, Ohio, especially concerning procedures for gaining his release, and letters in 1865 about starting a cotton farm outside Nashville, Tenn.